Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel with many similar ideas to what happened with a missing Malaysian plane. Montag, the main character, is a murderer on the loose. He gets away and goes away into a forest. The society, worried about their reactions, record and kill an innocent man on the street and broadcast it so people think they are safe. Recently over 200 people boarded a Malaysian plane and are yet to be found. MH730 went missing on March 8th, 2014. Several conspiracy theories and stories surround the missing plane as people try to solve the mystery. Several of them were altered by society. One of the largest conspiracies going around is that the pilot was insane and flew away. This is told because society does not want to embrace the fact that they might have sent off a malfunctioning plane, for the sake of the airport and the airplane brand. Many connections can be made between how people receive their news in Fahrenheit 451 and after MH730 went missing.

Getting news through Fahrenheit 451 can be very deceptive. Montag killed someone, but society believed they were safe because the new was portrayed as the officers caught Montag. In reality, they faked his death by killing an innocent man. People only received their news through one source, so the only thing they can do is believe it is true. Throughout the novel Granger explains what is being broadcasted to society, “‘See that?’ whispered Granger. ‘I’ll be you; right up at the end of the street is our victim (Bradbury 118).” This is when society broadcasts the fake killing of “Montag”, ensuring the safety of its people. Grangers reaction shows how used he is to seeing society altering things. His correct prediction shows how it is common for society to lie. They live in a society where whatever comes on the news, is absolutely true to them.

Fahrenheit 451 uses many ideas and concepts to explain their society. Society is worried about its high reputation, so it murders an innocent man. An analysis explains, “Bradbury's novel demonstrates the people's reliance on the higher power. For they can not think for their own nor believe in their own ideas (Luker 2).” This quote shows how reliant the people are and how willing they are to believe just about anything, rather than doing the thinking themselves. Most of the time they are even blocked the option of thinking themselves, since society alters their mind from the day they are born. The people end up getting bombed showing that society never really put them in safety. This compares to getting our news in today's society. “We learn every horrific event that happens anywhere in the world. Yet our connections is minimal (Patai 7),” says an analysis on Fahrenheit 451. This demonstrates that modern society receives their news worded any which way to make anyone believe anything.

Many similar events happened when MH730 went missing. A plane went completely missing and several biased conspiracies surrounded it . Many people believe several different things, just because of how their news was presented. The news announces, “There will always be a mystery as to what happened to the 200 passengers that boarded MH730. But people will tell you the most insane stories (MH730 4).” People twist the story around so no one can fully understand what happened. Many researchers claim they have to be careful when hearing witnesses from the plane, because many of them could be lying and are